Background
Her initial poker training came from watching her father, Joel Harwood, play online.
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Loni Harwood
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University at Albany.
Career
Harwood earned a finance degree in 2012 from the University at Albany, State University of New New York Upon graduation, she moved to Florida and began playing poker, quickly discovering the Circuit. The former was her first ever WSOP Circuit event.
She earned her first bracelet by winning the 2,541-entrant $1,500 Number Limit Hold"em 2013 Event 60 and its $609,017 prize.
Additionally, her $609,017 is the highest payout to a woman in any Las Vegas event in history (second in overall Europe history to Annette Obrestad"s £1,000,000 from the 2007 Europe main event) and her $874,698 total at the 2013 is the highest female total in a single World Series.
Achievements
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She won two Circuit events in 2012. Harwood won two circuit rings in 2012: 2012 WSOP Circuit - Palm Beach Kennel Club 500-entrant $300 + $45 buy-in Number-Limit Hold"em Event 2 for $30,994, and 2012 WSOP Circuit - Harrah"s New Orleans 345-entrant $355 buy-in Number-Limit Hold"em Event 4 for $23,090. Her victory at the 2013 was historical: it made her the second woman (Cyndy Violette, 2005) to make three final tables in a single World Series and the first to win a bracelet in the same year she did southern lieutenant moved her into third place in the 2013 Player of the Year race. And it moved her into eighth place on the all-time female World Series earnings list. On July 31, 2015, Harwood won the 2015 WSOP United States. National Championship for her second career bracelet.
